{"id":55190,"date":"2024-09-18T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55190"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:06:54","slug":"open-thread-september-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/18\/open-thread-september-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 18 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Reading about all the crap that&#8217;s happening in Springfield, OH, it struck me that Republicans, at least MAGAts, don&#8217;t seem to have a lot of faith in their own candidates. If they actually had faith in Trump**, they would believe that if elected he would deport or murder any immigrants who are &#8220;eating pets: &#8211; maybe even citizens who are &#8220;eating pets.&#8221; But they apparently don&#8217;t. They apparently think they must take the bloodshed into their own tiny hands. So they can&#8217;t really have as much faith in Trump** as they think they do.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know what to say about this. of course, concerning Trump**, the first question should always be, &#8220;Is it even a thing or just fantasy?&#8221; That said, even if it&#8217;s a thing, even if it makes any money, how long is he going to live to appreciate it? <a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trump-just-launched-his-global-domination-game-plan-after-losing-the-election-not-satire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Filikowski<\/a> thinks it&#8217;s actually a Junior and Eric venture using Daddy&#8217;s name &#8211; well, maybe. Makes the most sense I have seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>I get the morning newsletter from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/oMbwK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>, but thatt&#8217;s all, so I often don&#8217;t see what else they have to offer. This was cited by Robert Hubbell. Of course it was Trump** who &#8220;started the fire.&#8221; But I serously doubt that &#8220;everyone knows it.&#8221; Republicans have been promoting that label that violence comes from the left, and olicing as if that were actually true, for my entire lifetime. A bit of truth is not going to wipe that out, no matter how obvious it has become, and no matter how much we wish it would.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akDgvXYqViw?si=aoqSpcKEsgCet_gY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6GORnpQmZ7Q?si=SH6AA29D5a2m4Rzo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/history.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/history.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/history-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/history-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/history-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Reading about all the crap that&#8217;s happening in Springfield, OH, it struck me that Republicans, at least MAGAts, don&#8217;t seem to have a lot of faith in their own candidates. If they actually had faith in Trump**, they would believe that if elected he would deport or murder any immigrants who are &#8220;eating pets: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/18\/open-thread-september-18-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4553,4650,4531,4948,3711,3846,3717,5498],"class_list":["post-55190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-dogs","tag-gop-cowardice","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-hypocrites","tag-gop-violence","tag-ohio","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}